Vshape Model

©2010 International Journal of Computer Applications (0975 – 8887) Volume 1 – No. 12

Advancements in the V-Model

Sonali Mathur

Asst. Professor, CSE Dept. ABES Institute of Technology Ghaziabad, U.P-201009

Shaily Malik

Lecturer, CSE Dept. Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Tech. Janakpuri, New Delhi-110054

ABSTRACT

Software Testing is the most important phase of the Software Development Life Cycle. On most software projects testing activities consume at least 30 percent of the project effort. On safety critical applications, software testing can consume between 50 to 80 percent of project effort. Software testing is essential to ensure software quality. Schedule is always running tight during the software system development, thereafter reducing efforts of performing software testing management. In such a situation, improving software quality becomes an impossible mission It is our belief that software industry needs new approaches to promote software testing management. The article discussed the model that already existed, further excavates the parallelism between test stages and maintenance test stages and tries to propose a improved V model. This model make the software testing pass through the each stage of software development cycle. That can discover software mistakes as early as possible.

We should have well techniques for testing supported by simple and clear model to be followed to avoid unnecessary ambiguity. This articles present two-dimensional approach for managing testing. Firstly we need a testing that incorporates testing into the entire software development life cycle. Secondly software testing management has to introduce the concept of software architecture to gradually enhance its software testing management. This paper discusses the traditional V-model in detail and the advanced Vmodel that has basically emphasizes on the software maintenance.

2. SOFTWARE TESTING MANAGEMENT

The software architecture is the key towards an efficient...